English Explanatory Dictionary

needs-cost

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Of necessity or need; necessarily.

Word forms

needs-cost

Etymology

From Middle English needis cost, nedes cost, from needes (genitive of need (“need”)) + cost (“means”); synchronically analyzable as a univerbation of needs + cost.

Synonyms

needs must
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